Hopbot log for 2007-07-05 - Helma IRC channel: #helma on irc.freenode.net

2007-07-05:

[17:24] * technomancy is personally worried that steve yegge's Rhino-based project will slow adoption of helma
[17:24] <zumbrunn> no way...
[17:25] <zumbrunn> making people aware of javascript/rhino as a server-side alternative can only be helpful
[17:25] <zumbrunn> don't think so?
[17:26] <technomancy> there's a danger you could have a situation like with Arc; everyone is waiting for it to be released, but the developers have little incentive to release until it's "perfect", so other hackers put off learning (CL/server-side JS) until they can use it with (Arc/the Yeggemobile)
[17:27] <technomancy> if it were released and people could compare the two and think about the advantages of one over the other; great. but as it is people are just dealing with vague ideas/hype from the other project.
[17:29] <zumbrunn> true, but at least this might make many people look at helma and consider it, that otherwise would never even have known that it exists
[17:32] <technomancy> i hope so. =)
[17:42] <zumbrunn> a) wait 3 years and see if Google comes up with something that matches your expectations
[17:42] <zumbrunn> b) use Helma and provide feedback to evolve Helma in the direction you expect *now*
[17:44] <zumbrunn> ...plus... at the very least through their work on Rhino, Google will contribute to Helma
[17:44] * zumbrunn hopes so :-)

 

 

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